I have been playing with the brown box and decided to take it for a serious hunt this morning. I found an old park area and since I live in the desert, I was at the park and gearing up at 4:30 AM, I hip mounted the Eldo, put the 7" widescan coil on the end of the rod, super tuned it and away I went, I set disc just above nails and planned to dig all repeat signals.
I made about three swings over the ground and picked up a good signal, dug down two inches and found a 1/4 piece of a pull tab, that's when I realized that the old Eldorado was one serious detector to sound off on such a small target. I went about another 10' and had another good signal, dug down about 4" and found a brass gusset about 3/4" in dia. All togeather I found several brass pieces that looked to be something that would be worn on uniforms, I will have to do some reasearch on the area to see what activity took place in the past.
As far as coins go I found about twenty coins, nothing older than 1960's and deepest was around 4", one quarter, one dime, one nickel, and a bunch of pennies. Coins down to 8" deep are not evan a challenge for the Eldorado, it will bark when the coil passes over a coin, check it at 90 degree sweeps and if it repeats, it's most likley a coin.
I can see why relic hunters like the original Eldorado, it is good at finding small pieces of metal at respectable depth, I had trouble finding a few of the targets with my pin pointer, because I moved them while trying to dig them up and had to run the coil over my diggings to see which direction they went.
Colt
I made about three swings over the ground and picked up a good signal, dug down two inches and found a 1/4 piece of a pull tab, that's when I realized that the old Eldorado was one serious detector to sound off on such a small target. I went about another 10' and had another good signal, dug down about 4" and found a brass gusset about 3/4" in dia. All togeather I found several brass pieces that looked to be something that would be worn on uniforms, I will have to do some reasearch on the area to see what activity took place in the past.
As far as coins go I found about twenty coins, nothing older than 1960's and deepest was around 4", one quarter, one dime, one nickel, and a bunch of pennies. Coins down to 8" deep are not evan a challenge for the Eldorado, it will bark when the coil passes over a coin, check it at 90 degree sweeps and if it repeats, it's most likley a coin.
I can see why relic hunters like the original Eldorado, it is good at finding small pieces of metal at respectable depth, I had trouble finding a few of the targets with my pin pointer, because I moved them while trying to dig them up and had to run the coil over my diggings to see which direction they went.
Colt